100 Fun Facts About MrBeast

What first name does MrBeast go by off camera?

Jimmy, short for James, has been at this since childhood: he says he was already uploading gaming videos at 11, two years before he opened the channel that made him famous.

MrBeast grew up in North Carolina, but in which state was he born?

Kansas: he was born in Wichita to parents on active military duty. The family moved so often in his early years that his mother blames it for his introversion.

In which North Carolina city was MrBeast primarily raised?

Greenville is still his base: he has built his production hubs there, and his company's president likens the plan to Tyler Perry's studio empire in Atlanta.

MrBeast says he declined an invitation to join which 2023 expedition?

The Titan submersible dive ended in a fatal implosion. Days later he revealed he had been invited and had said no, writing that it was 'kind of scary that I could have been on it'.

What was MrBeast's main YouTube channel first called?

MrBeast6000 is said to have got its number because plain 'Mr. Beast' was already taken; he opened the channel at 13.

What number did MrBeast count to in his January 2017 breakthrough video?

100,000 took so long that parts were sped up to fit the upload under a day. He says the idea grew from wondering if he could monetise a Naruto marathon; next he counted to 200,000.

What did MrBeast's mother do when he quit college to make videos?

Made him move out: he had enrolled to please her and says he never attended a class. There were no hard feelings, and she later left her own job to work for his company.

Which MrBeast video series built his early audience between 2015 and 2018?

Worst Intros on YouTube lifted him to about 30,000 subscribers by mid-2016. In 2015 he had told his future self 'I hope you have at least 100k subs'; by May 2017 he had a million.

Which chronic illness was MrBeast diagnosed with as a teenager?

Crohn's disease forced him to give up sports in his teens, a change his mother credits with turning him towards YouTube.

Which sport did MrBeast play growing up, before illness made him give up sports?

Baseball, where he played in the outfield, ended for him in his second year of high school. Stuck indoors, his mother says, he threw himself into YouTube instead.

Who got the whole $10,000 fee from MrBeast's first brand deal?

A homeless man got the cheque: rather than keep his first sponsor's money, MrBeast gave it all away on camera, and the response set the template for every giveaway since.

Which YouTuber did MrBeast buy billboards and ads to support in the 2018 subscriber race?

PewDiePie got every billboard in MrBeast's home town, and at the Super Bowl a row of his friends sat in shirts that together spelled out 'Sub 2 PewDiePie'.

Which video game sponsored MrBeast's real-life battle royale in Los Angeles in 2019?

Apex Legends put up the $200,000 in prize money just two weeks after the idea first came up in a brainstorm, and the battle was fought at a paintball and airsoft park.

Which esports player won MrBeast's $250,000 rock, paper, scissors tournament in 2020?

Nadeshot beat filmmaker Casey Neistat in the final of the charity event, which peaked at 662,000 live viewers, at the time the most ever for a YouTube live Original.

Which sisters won MrBeast's $300,000 influencer trivia tournament in October 2020?

Charli and Dixie D'Amelio answered alongside their parents, which some viewers called unfair. MrBeast replied that the teams had been his decision: 'if you were to get mad at anyone, get mad at me.'

Which Netflix show did MrBeast recreate in a November 2021 video?

Squid Game's sets were rebuilt for 456 real contestants, but the finale was changed: the $456,000 prize was decided by a round of musical chairs, not the title game.

Forbes said MrBeast's $54 million in 2021 out-earned which K-pop group on its last Celebrity 100?

BTS, Billie Eilish and Kim Kardashian all sat below his total, the most Forbes had ever recorded for a YouTuber; it put the jump down to his videos' views doubling to 10 billion in a year.

MrBeast was announced in 2026 as a guest on which business reality show?

Shark Tank named him a guest shark for its 18th season, and not alone: the chief executive of his own company, Beast Industries, was announced for the panel alongside him.

Which channel did MrBeast overtake in June 2024 to become the most subscribed on YouTube?

T-Series, a Bollywood music label, had led for years. The news set off a rush of its own: MrBeast gained two million more subscribers in a day, a number that had recently taken the label a month.

Which competitive eater appeared in MrBeast's special '50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000'?

Joey Chestnut, the hot-dog eating champion, was there to judge rather than eat: he scored the creators' cooking with Miranda Cosgrove and IShowSpeed. Animator JaidenAnimations won the million.

Which footballer did MrBeast's contestants try to beat for $1,000,000 in a 2025 video with Tom Brady?

Cristiano Ronaldo shared the video with Tom Brady and golfer Bryson DeChambeau. It passed 240 million views within weeks, and a follow-up built around Neymar soon followed.

As of 2025, MrBeast's most-watched upload asks whether you would fly to Paris for what?

A baguette: in the 2022 Short a stranger takes up his offer and flies to Paris to fetch the bread, and it became his first upload to pass a billion views.

What does MrBeast say he does with most of his video earnings?

Reinvests it: brand deals and ad money from one hit pay for a bigger giveaway in the next, a loop The Verge called never-ending.

Which country accused MrBeast in 2025 of exploiting its ancient Maya ruins for commercial gain?

Mexico had granted a filming permit, but officials said it did not cover advertising his snack brand, and that a scene of him descending into a pyramid from a helicopter had been edited.

Which Brooklyn art collective co-created the Finger on the App contest with MrBeast in 2020?

MSCHF built the game to crown a single winner, but after more than 70 hours four players still had a finger on their screens, so MrBeast called it off and paid each of them $20,000.

MrBeast Burger launched in 2020 as what kind of business?

A virtual delivery-only brand: existing restaurant kitchens cooked the burgers, and it spread to about 2,000 of them before he said he could no longer guarantee the quality and wanted to move on.

Where did the first MrBeast Burger restaurant open in September 2022?

American Dream Mall, New Jersey, drew an estimated 10,000 people on opening day, some of whom had queued in the mall overnight.

What product did MrBeast's brand Feastables launch with in January 2022?

Chocolate bars: the company says it sold more than a million of them in the first 72 hours, helped by a Willy Wonka-style sweepstakes offering the chance to win a factory.

Which celebrity chef judged a dessert contest in a 2022 MrBeast video?

Gordon Ramsay scored the finalists' desserts out of 20 on a replica of Willy Wonka's factory, spitting some of them out; the winner, with 14, was handed the 'deed' to the building.

Which two creators co-founded the Lunchly snack kits with MrBeast in 2024?

KSI and Logan Paul's Prime drink goes in every box. The trio pitched the kits as a healthier rival to Lunchables, but Consumer Reports tested them in 2025 and judged them no healthier.

Which YouTuber co-founded Team Trees with MrBeast in 2019?

Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer, marked the launch by planting trees with drones for his own channel, and he has partnered with MrBeast on two more fundraisers since.

Which organization receives the Team Trees donations?

Arbor Day Foundation promised one tree per dollar. More than $4 million arrived within 24 hours of the launch, and the $20 million target was passed before the year was out.

A fan's Reddit post suggested MrBeast plant 20,000,000 trees to celebrate what?

A subscriber milestone: 20 million trees for 20 million subscribers. The suggestion snowballed into memes, and by the time he launched the campaign months later he had several million more.

Which CEO made the single largest Team Trees pledge, at 1,000,001 trees?

Tobias Lütke, the Shopify chief, pledged his trees 'for the Lorax' shortly after Elon Musk gave a round million 'for Treebeard', topping him by exactly one.

How many pounds of marine debris did Team Seas pledge to remove?

30,000,000 pounds, one for every dollar donated, was the promise. The campaign's own site now celebrates 34 million pounds removed, the work shared by Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Cleanup.

Which charity benefited from the 2025 Team Water campaign?

WaterAid was brought in because, as MrBeast's chief executive put it, creators are better at building awareness than at building wells. Some of the money went to US projects, including one in Jackson, Mississippi.

Beast Philanthropy began in 2020 by putting its revenue into which kind of charity operation?

A food bank: the channel's ad and merchandise money went to a warehouse running mobile food deliveries across eastern North Carolina, which reported more than a million meals by the end of 2021.

On which streaming service did Beast Games premiere in December 2024?

Prime Video got what was then its most-watched unscripted show, with 50 million viewers, yet MrBeast says the deal lost him tens of millions of dollars: 'I'm an idiot.'

What grand prize did MrBeast's Beast Games advertise for season one?

$5,000,000 was the advertised prize, but it had doubled by the finale: winner Jeff Allen picked the right briefcase out of ten and left with $10 million.

How many players competed in MrBeast's Beast Games season one, after the YouTube tryout round?

1,000 players made the series itself. Twice that number had turned up for the tryout round, which was released separately on YouTube and cut the field in half.

Which Las Vegas venue hosted the opening round of Beast Games in July 2024?

Allegiant Stadium held the tryout round over five days in July 2024. Those who got through moved on to Toronto for the main competition, and the stadium footage went out on YouTube instead of in the show.

Which long-running reality show staged a crossover with MrBeast's Beast Games in season two?

Survivor lent its host as well as its name: Jeff Probst appears in the season, most of which was filmed back in North Carolina after the state updated its film incentives.

In which city did MrBeast open the temporary Beast Land theme park in 2025?

Riyadh booked him for its annual entertainment season, part of Saudi Arabia's drive to draw tourists; the pop-up park turned his challenge videos into more than 15 rides.

Which Streamy Award did MrBeast win four years running, from 2020 to 2023?

Creator of the Year was his four times in a row, though he skipped the 2023 ceremony; the year before the run began he had been nominated for it and lost.

Which magazine named MrBeast one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2023?

Time put him on its flagship list in 2023, in an entry written by a fellow YouTuber he had raised millions with, and named him again on its first list of top creators two years later.

Which mobile banking app gave MrBeast his first sponsorship with an ownership stake, in 2021?

Current gave him a stake in the company as well as a fee. The deal was struck by the marketing executive who, at a different firm, had arranged his very first brand deal four years earlier.

Which regular in MrBeast's videos is one of the four childhood friends he first hired?

Chandler Hallow has known him since boyhood and is one of the regulars he calls 'the boys'; appearing in the videos has given several of them big followings of their own.

MrBeast has a voice cameo in which 2024 animated sequel?

Kung Fu Panda 4 cast him as Panda Pig, one of the hopefuls trying out to be the next Dragon Warrior; a year earlier he had voiced a bystander in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film.

Which bestselling author teamed up with MrBeast on a thriller novel for HarperCollins?

James Patterson's partnership with him set off a bidding war, with reported offers in eight figures. Their thriller, The Most Dangerous Games, came out in 2026, announced for release in 15 languages at once.

MrBeast's 2025 video 'I Bought the NFL' was actually promoting what?

YouTube's first free NFL livestream was a Chargers–Chiefs game played in São Paulo and shown worldwide at no charge; some viewers took his title literally and thought he had bought the league.

What did MrBeast film himself watching for a full hour in one of his early YouTube stunt videos?

Paint drying for an hour was one of the deliberately pointless stunts that first got him noticed. Another, a bid to stay underwater for 24 hours, had to be abandoned for health reasons.

Which animated character had a quesadilla named after him on the MrBeast Burger menu in March 2022?

Shrek got his own quesadilla after Universal Studios let MrBeast license the character. It was filled with two beef patties, cheese, pickles and onions.

MrBeast set a Guinness World Record in July 2023 as the first person to reach a million followers on which app?

Threads had been live for about a day when MrBeast passed one million followers, after posting just three times. Mark Zuckerberg, whose company built the app, was the second person to get there.

MrBeast appears as one of the rejected bachelors in the 2025 music video for 'Type Dangerous' by which singer?

Mariah Carey works through a line of suitors in the video, from Mr. Player to Mr. Racer, and makes each one disappear, Mr. Beast included. Joseph Kahn directed it.

Which billionaire owns Necker Island, the private Caribbean island where MrBeast married Thea Booysen in July 2026?

Richard Branson, the Virgin Group founder, owns Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands. MrBeast confirmed the wedding with photos ten days after teasing that he might be getting married.

MrBeast went viral in July 2024 by tweeting he would run for which office if the minimum age were lowered?

US president is a job the Constitution keeps for people aged 35 and over, and MrBeast was 26 when he posted. He then explained he was only repeating that he stays out of politics.

Which toy did MrBeast try, and fail, to keep in motion for a whole day in an early stunt video?

A fidget spinner, the craze toy of 2017, would not stay turning for the full day he wanted. Odd endurance stunts like this one drove his channel's early growth.

Which retail giant was first to stock MrBeast's Feastables snacks, before the brand reached other stores in May 2023?

Walmart was the first big chain to carry Feastables after the January 2022 launch. The brand reached every 7-Eleven and Speedway in May 2023, and the UK that July.

Which NBA team wore the logo of MrBeast's snack brand Feastables as its jersey patch for the 2023–24 season?

Charlotte Hornets players carried the Feastables patch, a home-state deal for a creator raised in North Carolina. Feastables unveiled a new logo for the partnership, which has since ended.

On which holiday in 2024 did MrBeast propose to his girlfriend, the gaming streamer Thea Booysen?

Christmas Day 2024 was when he proposed, and he announced the engagement a week later on January 1. The couple had been together since 2022.

Which hit game did a 13-year-old MrBeast play in his earliest Let's Play uploads, alongside Call of Duty: Black Ops II?

Minecraft filled his first uploads in 2012, when the channel was still a small gaming account. He rarely appeared on camera in those early videos.

What did MrBeast have 100 of built to bring clean drinking water to communities that lacked it?

Wells, 100 of them, sit on a list of Beast Philanthropy projects that also includes $300,000 of technology donated to schools.

What did MrBeast's charity channel Beast Philanthropy deliver 20,000 pairs of to children in Africa?

Shoes went out in 20,000 pairs, one of several campaigns run by the charity channel he launched in September 2020. The channel says it donates all of its advertising revenue.

Which item did MrBeast's Beast Philanthropy hand out 10,000 of in the North Carolina city where he grew up?

Turkeys, 10,000 of them, were given out by Beast Philanthropy, which worked with the brand Jennie-O to put Thanksgiving meals on local tables.

Which children's TV network's awards show named MrBeast Favorite Male Creator four years running, from 2022 to 2025?

Nickelodeon stages the Kids' Choice Awards, the ceremony famous for drenching its guests in green slime. MrBeast took its Favorite Male Creator prize every year from 2022 to 2025.

Which four-time NBA champion made a guest appearance in MrBeast's 2025 video 'Beat Neymar, Win $500,000'?

Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors guard, showed up in a video built around contestants trying to beat Brazilian forward Neymar at his own sport.

Which former child star appeared in MrBeast's 300 million subscriber special, '50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000'?

Miranda Cosgrove, the iCarly lead, dropped in on the July 2024 special, which drew 71 million views in its first 24 hours. That made it his fastest-starting video to that point.

At which 2019 sporting event did MrBeast and his crew wear shirts spelling out a plea to subscribe to another YouTuber?

The Super Bowl in question was number LIII, where MrBeast bought a block of seats for his team so their shirts would line up as a single message.

Despite fronting some of the loudest videos on YouTube, how has MrBeast described his own personality?

An introvert is how he describes himself, saying his focus on YouTube leaves little room for a social life. His mother has linked the trait to the family's frequent moves when he was young.

At the first MrBeast Burger pop-up in 2020, drive-through customers were handed cash, gadgets and even what?

A new car was among the giveaways at the pop-up in Wilson, North Carolina, where the queue of vehicles stretched for up to 20 miles. Police eventually asked for the line to be closed.

MrBeast's Beast Games split its 200 season-two contestants into which two rival teams?

Strong vs. Smart was the theme, with 100 players picked for brawn and 100 for brains. Most of the season was shot in North Carolina after the state gave the production a $15 million grant.

In which Canadian city was Beast City, the main arena of MrBeast's Beast Games season one, filmed?

Toronto hosted Beast City at Downsview Park Studios in August 2024. An on-set accident there the following month led Ontario's labour ministry to open an investigation.

The uninhabited island used for the Beast Island stage of MrBeast's Beast Games belongs to which country?

Panama is home to La Vivienda Island, part of the Pearl Islands. Filming there and at the show's other sets helped the first season claim 44 Guinness World Records.

MrBeast's spokesperson partly blamed trouble on the Beast Games set on a global computer outage caused by which firm?

CrowdStrike pushed a faulty software update in July 2024 that crashed computers worldwide, just as filming began. The spokesperson also pointed to extreme weather and logistical issues.

MrBeast's snack brand Feastables had its early products made by a manufacturer in which South American country?

Peru is where a firm called Machu Picchu Foods made the brand's products, as a 2023 factory tour showed. In 2024 Feastables also signed up to Tony's Open Chain, a cocoa-sourcing initiative.

MrBeast's Feastables renamed its Deez Nutz flavour to which plainer name in 2024, after a legal claim over the branding?

Peanut Butter replaced the old name after a complaint from a peanut company called Dee's Nuts. The same 2024 relaunch changed the recipe and retired the MrBeast Bar name.

Which unexpected ingredient featured in one of the three launch flavours of MrBeast's Feastables in January 2022?

Quinoa gave its name to Quinoa Crunch, which launched beside the original and almond flavours. Feastables reportedly took $10 million in sales within its first few months.

Which problem did MrBeast say was hurting his brand when he tried to walk away from MrBeast Burger?

Poor quality was his complaint, since orders were cooked by partner restaurants he did not control. He sued the operating company in 2023, and it counter-sued him for walking out on the deal.

Which YouTuber reported finding mould on the cheese in a kit from MrBeast's snack brand Lunchly in October 2024?

Rosanna Pansino, known for her baking channel, found the mould while reviewing the pizza kit. US regulators later confirmed receiving more than ten complaints about Lunchly.

Which MrBeast cast member, first hired as a video editor in 2019, went on to co-host the Banter podcast?

Karl Jacobs moved from editing to camera work to the on-screen cast. Banter's first episode, with MrBeast as the guest, briefly knocked The Joe Rogan Experience off the top of Spotify's podcast chart.

MrBeast's brother runs which YouTube channel, which hired a future MrBeast cast member as an editor in 2019?

MrBro is his brother's channel, and the editor it hired in 2019 soon crossed over to MrBeast's crew as a cameraman before joining the on-screen cast.

In an early stunt video, MrBeast tried to shatter glass using a hundred of which noisy devices?

Megaphones, a hundred at once, were his tool for the glass-breaking test. Stunts like it had let him hand out $1 million by 2018, earning him the label of YouTube's biggest philanthropist.

Which annual year-in-review, skipped by its makers in 2020, did MrBeast remake himself on New Year's Day 2021?

YouTube Rewind was the feature he revived, phoning hundreds of creators for a version subtitled Thank God It's Over. It paid tribute to Kobe Bryant and Chadwick Boseman, who had both died that year.

Before the big giveaways, MrBeast's early uploads included videos estimating what about other YouTubers?

Their wealth was his subject as a teenager, alongside gaming clips, commentary on creator drama and tips for people starting their own channels.

What kind of school did MrBeast briefly attend in North Carolina before dropping out to make videos full-time?

A community college, Pitt in Winterville, was as far as his higher education went. He left in late 2016 with about 30,000 subscribers and an obsession with decoding the recommendation algorithm.

MrBeast moved home often as a child partly because both of his parents had careers in which field?

The military employed both of his parents, whose long working hours shaped a childhood of frequent relocations. They divorced in 2007.

Which YouTuber spent a month in 2022 crossing America to hand MrBeast a single penny, raising $1.38 million for charity?

Ryan Trahan set off from California with one cent and could spend only what he grew from it. His fundraising target for Feeding America had been just $100,000.

MrBeast first pulled on his boots in 2022 for a charity football match in London staged by which YouTube group?

The Sidemen revived their charity match in 2022 after a four-year break and beat the YouTube Allstars 8–7. The game raised over £1 million for causes including the Teenage Cancer Trust.

At which fan convention did the MrBeast Lab toy line first go on sale in July 2024, from a pop-up store?

San Diego Comic-Con hosted the launch in a pop-up shop shaped like an overturned tanker truck carrying toxic waste. It was toy maker Moose's first appearance at the event.

How did MrBeast end the 2020 Finger on the App contest after its last players had held on for 70 hours?

Paid all four finalists is the answer: each got $20,000, though the game had promised $25,000 to a single winner. It had begun with 1.3 million players.

Which Dutch nonprofit, founded by Boyan Slat, received roughly half of the money raised by MrBeast's Team Seas?

The Ocean Cleanup split the donations with Ocean Conservancy. Team Seas wrapped up in July 2024, when its organisers announced that the clean-up work was complete.

Which TV network aired a documentary about MrBeast's Team Trees campaign in December 2019 and donated $100,203?

Discovery screened the documentary, titled #TeamTrees, on December 3 and announced its donation the next day. The campaign went on to feature in more than 80,000 videos by creators around the world.

Which sports boss gave $100,000 to MrBeast's Team Water after MrBeast and Adin Ross phoned him during a live stream?

Dana White, who runs the UFC, agreed to the donation live on Kick. Hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin gave far more, $2.25 million, after MrBeast nudged him on television.

A free channel showing nothing but previously released MrBeast videos launched in 2023 on which streaming service?

Roku added the ad-supported channel, named Mr. Beast, to its Roku Channel line-up. It arrived the year before his first series made for a streaming platform.

Which American rapper released a 2026 remix with a guest verse from MrBeast, rapping as his alter ego MrLean?

Lil Baby added a MrBeast verse to a remix of his single Dead Fresh, a team-up that grew out of the Hood MrBeast meme of 2025. MrBeast then teased a full MrLean rap album.

Which digital collectibles app paid for MrBeast's first brand deal in June 2017, a $10,000 sponsorship?

Quidd put up the fee, and he gave every dollar of it away in the video it sponsored. The marketer behind that deal later arranged his first sponsorship to come with an ownership stake.

Which youth-focused money app did MrBeast's company Beast Industries acquire in February 2026?

Step, an app for managing money and building credit, was bought in a deal MrBeast said he hoped would improve financial literacy among young people.

Forbes said MrBeast's 2021 earnings matched the 2020 income of actor Vin Diesel and which Formula One champion?

Lewis Hamilton and Vin Diesel each earned about what MrBeast made in 2021, an estimated $54 million. That total made him the highest-earning creator on YouTube that year.

Moose Toys, the company that makes the MrBeast Lab collectable minifigures, is based in which country?

Australia is home to Moose Toys, the firm behind Shopkins, which signed MrBeast in January 2024. The range briefly topped Amazon's toy sales in February 2025.

Because his parents worked long hours, the young MrBeast was often cared for by whom?

Au pairs often looked after him while his parents' jobs kept them busy, and the family relocated frequently during his childhood.